Healthcare Informatics Research's Journey of Paving the Road to Excellence in Global Healthcare Informatics (original) (raw)

Abstract

As publishing a journal represents an academic society's identity in and influence on its field [1], Healthcare Informatics Research (HIR), the official journal of the Korean Society of Medical Informatics (KOSMI), forms the core of KOSMI's academic activities on healthcare informatics. The transition from the Journal of KOSMI to HIR in 2010 has allowed an expansion of KOSMI's vision through by its contribution to the field of global healthcare informatics. HIR has accomplished many milestones in the years since. It was indexed in the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Catalog, PubMed Central (PMC), and Scopus [2]. In 2016, it was indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) [3]. Of course, as HIR has grown externally, its internal growth has also continued since 2010. This can be confirmed by the journal metrics provided by Scopus and ESCI. Scopus is the largest database of abstracts and citations of peer-reviewed literature [4]. Of all Scopus's journal metrics, h-index and SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) are the most widely used measures of journal quality. SJR is a citation index indicator that computes a value reflecting the topic, quality, and reputation of the journal by citing another specific journal [5]. In conclusion, citations from famous journals are very important, and each quotation yields other influencing factors [5]. As of 2016, HIR's h-index was 14, and its SJR increased from 0.123 in 2011 to 0.588 in 2016 [6]. Scopus divides the indexed

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